My hunch is that Apple might give users a choice, perhaps during the initial onboarding process. That would be damaging for Google even insofar as I would gues

My hunch is that Apple might give users a choice, perhaps during the initial onboarding process. That would be damaging for Google even insofar as I would guess many users probably don’t even realise that there _is_ a choice. I doubt that Apple would want to give their competitor a free one-up in this space, so a choice for such a critical thing may be reasonable. Or, you know, a few billion dollars.